I remember we, we, we gave up after a while doing it, but we had a, a senior staff lunch table in the Fellows restaurant where anybody sort of a curator level and above was supposed to go every day for lunch because it was a way that also we… Read More
Well, it was, it was still living in that sort of rather competitive era. We, we act, we had one gorilla guy, the gorilla. And I always, I always remember having to remove his last teeth, poor animal because he’d been given too much sugar. But it was, it was… Read More
And this was at a time in the late fifties when, because there weren’t a lot of other things for people to do, London Zoo was getting something like 2 million visitors. So it was making a lot of money and, and it was that money that was being used… Read More
What kind of zoo did you come to when you arrived now at Regents Park?… Read More
What kind of zoo was Regents Park?… Read More
Would I take over the veterinary department as a whole?… Read More
So not only did I have the veterinary responsibilities for ZSL on site London and Whips node, but also for the veterinary aspects of three or four zoos in the Middle East as well. And that responsibility expanded when we at one point were actually managing a couple of those… Read More
And we appointed, there was a, a follow on to me in, in whip who I was responsible for. So in, in a way, after seven years, it was a natural move to take on the London side. And I, I still lived in the Park whip snake and commuted… Read More
And so I I, as far as I remember, I, I simply asked, I think to, you know, would I become senior veterinary officer?… Read More
Well, the, the clinician at London was retiring and it was, the first part of the move was actually to, to take over the clinical, not the pathological side. Read More
Is this a promotion?… Read More
Now you move from Waid Zoo to London Zoo to Regents Park as a veterinarian, why did you make the move?… Read More
No, no. There were a few, there were a few houses for mostly the more senior keepers, the ones, ones that might be needed in an emergency. And Whipsnade had, and still has what they call the Bothy, B-O-T-H-I, it’s a name for farm workers accommodation. But we had a,… Read More
They were outside and they had to go through the zoo gates to, to get to those kids and vice versa. But of course, the other thing was that those kids and my kids grew up in the zoo. So when the park was closed after closing in the summer,… Read More
And did everyone live on the zoo?… Read More
But Missouri who were also interested in that same, and that’s how, that’s part of, I wouldn’t claim total responsibility at all, but that is how Missouri diets came about. They, it was act it was actually as an extension of what VP Nutrition had started, oh gosh, 40 years… Read More
Were there goods and dads living in the zoo?… Read More
So it had to be sort of fat covered so it would float. And at the time, BP were producing a lot of new fish foods, which would actually float. And they also produced a floating poultry diet as well. So by combining the idea of a small pellet that… Read More
And then BP Nutrition decided they were gonna sell and who did they sell out to?… Read More
So I gave this idea to him one day, can we not, ’cause you know, how flamingos feed by, you know, dabbling upside down, could we work on, could we use a floating diet?… Read More